Leadership is a widely celebrated quality in our culture. Our educational institutions love to train leaders and to fete the success of their alumni. Companies applaud and reward their best leaders, whose minds and spirits forge new pathways, sell products, and make tons of money for boards and stakeholders.

Leadership qualities like initiative, innovative thinking, risk-taking, and analytical skills fill countless resumes. We have a mixed sense of both fear and admiration for out of the box thinkers and mavericks, such as Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. We know that for all of their business acumen and charisma, they can also be sometimes petulant and over-the-top competitive.

We need these kinds of people to stand ground on important issues, to invent and dream, to have the guts to forge new…